{"id":12,"date":"2009-03-18T00:29:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=7"},"modified":"2009-03-18T00:29:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:29:06","slug":"march-martius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/march-martius\/","title":{"rendered":"March (Martius)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March (<strong>Martius<\/strong>) is the month devoted to <strong>Mars<\/strong>, the god of war. If you know anything about the Ancient Romans, you&#8217;ll know that they revered <strong>Mars<\/strong> and held month long celebrations to honor <strong>Mars<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Mars<\/strong> was the epitome of valor and courage. He&#8217;s one of the more macho gods. He&#8217;s known as the god who was able to bed the goddess of love, Venus (and Venus&#8217;s husband\u00a0<strong>Vulcan<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t too\u00a0happy about that!) I guess you could say that Ancient Rome was a blood lusty empire. Many of the <strong>fasti<\/strong> or celebrations in honor of\u00a0<strong>Mars<\/strong> emphasize qualities that pertain to war or blood. It&#8217;s actually not too surprising that the Ancient Romans had a penchant for blood. I suppose you&#8217;d need to have such a mindset to conquer and govern vast nations.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <strong>Feriae Maris<\/strong> is the name of the celebration in honor of Mars&#8217;s birthday. The priests (<strong>salii<\/strong>)\u00a0carry shields (<strong>ancilia<\/strong>) and beat a sword on the shield in a procession around the city of Rome. This ceremony is called <strong>Tubilustrium<\/strong>. <strong>Tubilustrium<\/strong> was a ceremony commonly performed to pump the soldiers up for war.<\/p>\n<p>Before the soldiers were sent to war, the priests (<strong>salii<\/strong>) would slaughter a lamb to Mars as a sacrificial offering. I think it&#8217;s quite fitting considering that this is the god of war. I don&#8217;t personally like blood and war, but yes, they do go together. On this note, have an enjoyable March (<strong>Martius<\/strong>). Well, sort of, in a non violent way (I hope).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March (Martius) is the month devoted to Mars, the god of war. If you know anything about the Ancient Romans, you&#8217;ll know that they revered Mars and held month long celebrations to honor Mars.\u00a0Mars was the epitome of valor and courage. He&#8217;s one of the more macho gods. He&#8217;s known as the god who was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/march-martius\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3691],"tags":[3756],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-latin-language","tag-march"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}